From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3456 invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2002 08:04:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3399 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2002 08:04:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sina.com) (202.108.35.235) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Sep 2002 08:04:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 17165 invoked by uid 99); 19 Sep 2002 08:00:31 -0000 Message-ID: <20020919080031.17164.qmail@sina.com> From: leiming To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Cc: biswapesh_chatterjee@tcscal.co.in Subject: RE: Re: how to use libgdb ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:04:00 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00272.txt.bz2 hi! Thank you! If I want to build my GUI IDE in cygwin+win2000 ,is your approach right to finish it? leiming ----- Original Message ----- From:Biswapesh Chattopadhyay To:GDB List Subject:Re: how to use libgdb ? Date:Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:38:40 +0800 >Hi list > >I'm one of the developers of Anjuta (http://anjuta.sf.net/), an IDE for >GNOME. Currently, we are using a spawned subprocess for GDB interaction. >This works fairly well, but obviously a shared library with a nice (and >reasoinably stable) API would be very helpful for IDE developers. So, my >question is: if GDB build process already builds libgdb.a, would any >patches to make it build a shared libgdb.so be accepted into the main >tree ? It might be very useful, for example, for gnome-debug, which is >an upcoming component for debugging applications using a nice GUI >interface. This might speed up the responsiveness and enable us to do >more advanced stuff (such as tracing multiple threads simultaneously). > >Plug: If you are on Linux, please try out Anjuta CVS - you can debug >Anjuta using Anjuta and the debugger interface is really nice ! > >Thanks in advance. >Biswa. > > >> Well, >> there really is no libgdb at this point. >> There has been some talk of one by developers as something they'd >> eventually like to do, but right not there is nothing available. >> >> However, the gdb build process (at least on linux) created libgdb.a >> and then builds main.c with that to create gdb. It is possible to >> create libgdb.so rather than libgdb.a and dynamically link to the new >> library. It just takes some fiddling with the Makefile that configure >> created. >> I've not done extensive testing on it, but it seems to work for me. >> If you wanted to build your own app on that, you could get sample usage >> from the main.c file >> >> I guess it should be pointed out, though, that the libgdb.so that you >> create is a GPL'd work, so even dynamically linking to it then requires >> that you GPL your application as well. >> >> Scott Moser >> Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center >> IBM Corp., Austin, Tx >> (512) 838-1533 T/L: 678-1533 >> ssmoser@us.ibm.com , internal zip: 9812 >> >> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, leiming wrote: >> >> > >> > hi! >> > Who has used libgdb to integrate gdb into GUI developement? >> > Can you tell me the detailed step or provide some manual? >> > >> > Thanks a lot! >> > >> > leiming >> > >> > >> >> > > > > ______________________________________ =================================================================== ÐÂÀËÃâ·Ñµç×ÓÓÊÏä (http://mail.sina.com.cn) ÐÂÀ˶þÊÖÊг¡£ºÒ»ÔªÍ¶È룬ʮ·Ö¾ªÏ²£¬°Ù·ÖÂúÒâ (http://classad.sina.com.cn/2shou/) ÊýÍòÕÅÊÖ»úͼƬÊýÍòÊ׶ÌÐÅÁåÉùÈÎÄãÌôÑ¡£¬Ã¿Ì춼ÓиüР(http://sms.sina.com.cn/cgi-bin/sms/smspic.cgi)